Lost desktop OS 11.3

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Hi all:

Not sure what I did but i’ve lost my desktop. I use classical desktop, not folders and all the icons are gone. Also, the desktop background has been changed from a custom jpeg image to the default image (circles).

How can I recover the desktop or do I need to reconfigure it?

Thanks, Tom

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These settings are kept in the .kde directory under your home folder. Is it there? Did it get deleted or renamed maybe?

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Maybe You accidentally switched to a different activity. It happened to me in the past.

Best regards,
Greg

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OMG! That happened to me a long time ago (about a year). I almost went crazy, couldn’t find my way out. Never heard about activities until then.

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On a KDE-4.4.4 desktop, until she learned to lock her widgets, my mother had a habit of deleting all her folders/icons. Fortunately she never touched her Desktop folder on her hard drive (and since then I also backed it up). So in the case of her PC, to restore her folder (with all her icons) was a simple matter to do something like this (click on images to make larger):

Go to the selection for adding widgets …
http://thumbnails10.imagebam.com/11448/3fcb1b114474905.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/3fcb1b114474905)

Locate folder widget:
http://thumbnails18.imagebam.com/11448/c6dcde114474909.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/c6dcde114474909)

Drag folder widget to desktop :
http://thumbnails21.imagebam.com/11448/c27835114474915.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/c27835114474915)

Change directory in which folder widget points to:
http://thumbnails17.imagebam.com/11448/ef1092114474919.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/ef1092114474919)

… continued in next post …

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And one gets the main folder back on the KDE4 desktop:
http://thumbnails9.imagebam.com/11448/b988ac114474923.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/b988ac114474923)

… I have not (yet) encountered the “different activity” configuration so thats also a new possibility to me too.

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Hi Brunomcl;
What filename is it under? I didn’t find any file that appeared to do with the desktop.

Thanks, Tom

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Hi Oldcpu;
I don’t use folder mode on my desktop, just put shortcuts on the desktop directly. As for the widgets, I always lock them and they are still displayed. Not a great loss as I can easily enough put the shortcuts back on the desktop and restore the background which is a custom image saved in “Pictures”

Thanks for the reply though, Tom